Time Zone Abbreviation Difficulties with PHP

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If you’ve ever had to deal with time and PHP before, chances are you’ve had to deal with time zones. Dealing with time is difficult enough, but once the time becomes variable based on the preferences of the user of your application, it becomes even more confusing. Why so confusing? I mean, it seems simple… Read more »

How to Create Transparent, Rounded Corners Using ImageMagick

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Dynamically adding rounded corners to images can be a tricky process. Making sure those corners are transparent adds an additional level of complexity. In the project that I am working on, we used to fake the rounded corners with ImageMagick. Since our site had a white background, applying white, pre-made corners over the image was… Read more »